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OpenText Operations Bridge vs Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

OpenText Operations Bridge
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
34th
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
44
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (8th), IT Operations Analytics (10th)
Splunk Infrastructure Monit...
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (10th), Container Management (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Cloud Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of OpenText Operations Bridge is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Volodymyr Bondarchuk - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 29, 2022
Has instrument analysis and anomaly control features that help indicate root causes and problems with your infrastructure
I have experience with other solutions apart from Micro Focus Operations Bridge, for example, NetIQ Operations Center and NetIQ AppManager. I also have experience with network performance monitoring solutions, for example, Microsoft SCOM, and some open-source products, such as Nagios and Zabbix. What makes Micro Focus Operations Bridge better than others is that it works as an umbrella and includes different models for different types of monitoring. At the same time, an open-source product does not give you this kind of functionality. Instead, an open-source product only gives you classic monitoring functionalities in some areas of network performance but not for all areas of monitoring solutions or infrastructure. Microsoft SCOM, at the moment, has many new features, and it's similar to Micro Focus which focuses on network performance and traffic monitoring, so my company uses it together with Micro Focus for monitoring.
Rodney Riettie - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 20, 2023
Helps to ingest a massive amount of raw data and use it effectively
A lot of customers had a hard time effectively searching within the data in Splunk. There is a learning curve from searches to indexes and using all the macros that we have created. It is a little difficult for somebody who has not used it quite a bit and does not have a lot of practice with it, but the AI features that we have been hearing about through Splunk will make it a lot easier for us to use human language to search this data. That is big. That is pretty powerful, and that will help a lot with our customers. At the Splunk conference, some of the talks have been about the AI platform and more effective and easier ways to search within Splunk through indexes and other things. These features will help correct some of the things with which we are having a hard time with some of our customers.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The event correlation is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The Performance Manager provides great insight into our systems' performance."
"It is stable."
"We haven't faced any stability issues. There hasn't been any crashes or glitches."
"We use the on-premises version to monitor our systems and manage emails. All our systems use Operations Bridge, especially the critical systems."
"It has the capability to display overall health of the infrastructure and is very useful for executive reports on the health of the infrastructure."
"I've found the solution to be very scalable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its grouping scripts and event focus."
"The Add data feature lets you gather any type of log and easily analyze it."
"The data collection from our VMs, containers, databases, and backend components is valuable."
"The most valuable thing that we have seen within our group is the ability to ingest all this raw data and have it organized in a certain way so that different groups can get effective alerting from this massive amount of raw data that is out there."
"It's a very easy-to-use solution."
"The solution's basic visibility is one of its most valuable features. So, it is a solution that is easy to use...The solution's initial setup process was straightforward."
"Great monitoring of network devices."
"We haven't really experienced any glitches or bugs."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is its ability to get information about all of the security measurements in my environment."
 

Cons

"The deployment of agents on new CI should be improved. There should be some kind of automation to directly deploy them from the console. It can maybe have some more AI functions because most of the other tools are going in that direction."
"The initial setup is a little bit complex."
"In a future release, we would like an improved upgrade process. When you upgrade it now, it first uninstalls everything and then reinstalls all the packages, which means any customization that you've done in the directories on the surface disappears."
"I'm not aware of areas that need improvement."
"Implementation could be improved."
"The solution is overall "heavy", requiring multiple servers, even without HA."
"The price is quite expensive, and because of this, we may try another solution."
"Reporting has to be tackled a bit more. Conceptually, it is there and conceptually it is amazing, but somehow the module itself is suffering."
"Splunk would be better if some tools were integrated to be able to take action on security or network concerns."
"There is not a lot of support for the tool's on-premises version, especially since everything is on the cloud."
"The price has room for improvement."
"The security could be better."
"They do not have all the features that I expect right now."
"One thing I recently ran into was that the logs on the server most often get Gzipped after they have been rotated. We found that we were not monitoring some of the things, so we had to go back and pull them in. Right now, it pulls one at a time, untars it, or unzips it, so I cannot look at the entire history. There can be an improvement in that area."
"There is a lot of room for improvement with the automation."
"Splunk could be better integrated with configuration manager solutions so we can automatically resolve issues without human interference."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"As OpsBridge is a suite of products bundled together, you may find yourself paying for software functionality that you don't actually use, e.g. Real User Monitor (RUM)."
"Setup costs can be high depending on the partner, but it is worth it."
"The licensing cost for this solution is approximately $1,000 USD."
"The licensing model for Micro Focus Operations Bridge is unit-based so it can be one device or ten devices depending on your situation or model. Cost-wise, it's much more if you have more devices and features such as infrastructure monitoring, analytic dashboard, and business dashboard in your model."
"The cost is very high."
"Pricing is very flexible and depends on the modules selected as per the requirement."
"It is competitive."
"This is an expensive solution."
"I would rate the price of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring as an eight out of ten, with ten being the most expensive."
"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is an expensive solution."
"Splunk has been fairly expensive, but it has been predictable."
"Splunk's infrastructure monitoring costs can be high because our billing is based on data volume measured in terabytes, rather than the number of devices being monitored."
"The solution's pricing is costly."
"I am not in that circle, but we are currently licensing based on our queries. That is working out for us. Previously, it was by volume of data, and now, we can store as much data as we want."
"Licensing cost is the biggest argument I get from those divesting from Splunk. There are those within our organization who say we are going to go to other tools since Splunk is too expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
11%
Government
10%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
16%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus Operations Bridge?
The licensing model for Micro Focus Operations Bridge is unit-based so it can be one device or ten devices depending on your situation or model. Cost-wise, it's much more if you have more devices a...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring?
Licensing cost is the biggest argument I get from those divesting from Splunk. There are those within our organization who say we are going to go to other tools since Splunk is too expensive. Till ...
What needs improvement with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring?
We never had any issues when it comes to the type of use cases we are using it for. We did not need more advancement on it, but I know that, in general, everything can be updated. There are tiny li...
 

Also Known As

Micro Focus Operations Bridge, Operations Bridge Manager, Micro Focus Operations Analytics
Splunk Insights for Infrastructure
 

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Sample Customers

GE Money Bank, Bank AlJazira, Tech Mahindra
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